Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhy don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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